I’m absolutely all for making things usable and accessible to everyone. I like websites to be semantically coded, I like audio books for the blind, and I get a sour taste in my mouth when I can’t get a ramp to get up stairs.

But there are two urinals in the bathroom closest to my cube. One is a normal height, slightly short maybe for me, since I’m 6′4″. The other comes up to about 3 inches below my knee. This is a drug and literature warehouse/fulfillment company. There are no dwarfs who work here. No child labor. For some reason, usability studies convinced this multi-million dollar company to install usable urinals for tiny people.

If I were to try using it, gravity would quite likely force me to change my pants.

This is a lesson, I think, to not develop usability studies in a vacuum. Or I’m just bitching because I don’t have a spare pair of jeans in my cube.